GENEALOGY LIBRARY RESEARCHSOURCES

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1 GENEALOGY LIBRARY RESEARCHSOURCES 1. IGI (International Genealogical Indei) Computerized Index of various records. Lists births, christenings and marriages of more than 88 million deceased persons from many countries and time periods. Printed on microfiche. At BYU. Also S.L. Genealogical Library. Or any Branch Library. A MUST for searching. The Church is currently working on an updated Index that will have 115 million names. Indexed by Locality. Then alphabetically within that locality by Surname. 2. Family Records Collection. 1. Archive Section. Contains Family Group Record forms submitted for temple work between 1942 and Contains official LDS ordinance dates. Also at BYU. 2.THE PATRON SECTION contains Family Group Record forms submitted to the library between 1924 and 1979 for filing. Microfilmed. At BYU. Filmed according to the years the forms were submitted.( l , etc.) This is where you will find the four generation sheets submitted by yourself and relatives on your lines. 3. TEMPLERECORDS. These are filmed from the actual temple records. You need some kind of a date to look for, to use these records effectively. Requires a temple recommend to search. Also AT BYU. 4. T.I.B. (Temple Index Bureau.) Contains records of all endowments done in any of the temples. On Microfilm. Search by surname. Important: Read information at the first of the film which tells how surnames are grouped. Temple recommend required. AT BYU. FAMILY REGISTRY. An aid to help you find others who are working on your same surnames. Individuals and family organizations have submitted the names of those they are researching to this registry. Also at BYU.

2 6. The BYU Library also contains a microfiche copy of the card catalogue of the Salt Lake Genealogical Library. Arrangements can be made to borrow films from the S.L. Library to use at BYU. CENSUSRECORDS. The BYU has all the US Census records that are at the S.L. Genealogical Library except for the 1910 census. If you have an ancestor who was still alive in 1900, the month and year of birth appear in this census. The place of birth of the father and mother of the person listed as Husband and Wife on the 1900 census is also given. Several of the US census records have been indexed. Check with the information counter at the library you are visiting to see which censuses have indexes. These indexes give the page, etc. of the original record, making finding the information contained in the original record much easier. The ENGLISH AND CANADIANCENSUSFOR 1851 and 1861 are at the BYU Library and indexes are available for these censuses. Know where your English ancestors came from? Alive during these years? An excellent finding tool. LPS BRANCH AND WARDRECORDS. Also at BYU. These are the primary source for LDS baptisms. The blessing records also are a primary source for birth statistics. If you use Branch or Ward records for birth dates, make certain that you search the ward record where your ancestor s family was living at the time he or she was born. Sometimes a later transcription of the original blessiang entry is inaccurate. LDS Censuses are another source to search. Available at any genealogical library is Jaussi and Chaston's splendid resource book on Records of the LDS Church and Genealogical Records of Utah. The first is used as the index to Ward and other LDS records at the libraries. The Branch Genealogical Library located on the fourth floor of the BYU Library offers all kinds of free genealogical courses to help you get started. A list of those offered in February and March was in the Ward Newsletter for Feb 13. (last week) Lists of courses offered are also available at the library itself. FORMS. Yes, there are new forms for the Pedigree Chart and the Family group sheet. These follow the format for the sheets produced on the computer programs. However, the genealogical society will accept any of the forms which have ever been published. If you are just starting and do not have any forms, by all means get the new forms. If you have old forms on

3 hand, by all means use them. The Church is trying to make it as easy as possible to do your genealogy. They will accept almost anything. You may want to submit your finished sheet to the ward genealogical consultant (Ida-Rose) before you submit it to the Society. However, this is optional. The advantage (hopefully) is that it may save getting your sheet back for correction. If you have a computer, by all means get the Church program for your computer (IBM or Apple 2E). There are courses offered by BYU and by the Utah County Genealogical Association to help you learn these PROGRAMS. The Genealogical Society has lifted one of its "No! Nos! Namely it will now accept "estimated" birth dates. If you have exhausted all records and cannot even CALCULATE a birthdate for an ancestor, you may now use ABT. The following rules should be followed in making an ESTIMATED date. (The difference between a calculated and an estimated date is that a calculated date is made from a "known" date, such as a burial date.) Example: John Doe is buried Jan , at age 45. A calculated birth date for John, then, would be: Bom: No Abt. is put in front of a calculated date. RULESFOR APPROXIMATING DATES: 1. Needed: Wife's birth date. Consider wife to be be 4 years younger than husband. If the husband's date is unknown use one of the below methods of calculating his birth year, and then calculate the wife's birth date from his calculated date. 2. Subtract 25 years from marriage year to get Husband's Abt. birth year. 3. If no mg. year is had subtract 26 years from date of first child's birth year for husband s Abt. birth year. 4. If you know the child is an "only child" of if you know of no other brothers or sisters, subtract 32 years from the only child's birth year for husband's ABT. birth year. Anytime you use an ABT. date a family group sheet must be submitted as an ABT. date cannot appear on an individual or Marriage entry. If you do not know where a Husband or Wife were bom, use the place

4 of birm of the Tirst child in these "unknown" birth blanks. ONE NEW THING THAT MUST APPEARON EVERY SUBMITTED SHEET WHETHER YOU SUBMITON A NEWORON AN OLD FORM IS THE STAKE UNIT NUMBER. THIS NUMBER IS Your friendly genealogical consultant (me) will be glad to help you at any time. If you are 65 or older, did you know you can ride the bus to S.L. for 25 cents? Now what's your eicuse? A time schedule for the Bus can be obtained at BYU.

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